October 8, 2012

One interesting statistic about this recovery... If you have a bachelor's degree right now in America, your unemployment rate is 4.1%. If you have a high school diploma, it's 8.7[%]. If you don't, it's 11.3[%]. The relationship in our economy, in a globalized, competitive economy between education achievement and job placement has never been tighter. ~ Major Garrett, National Journal (4:30 in at link above)

If ever there was a strong piece of evidence that education should be pursued...